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65 matches to Boston Massacre
Boston Massacre. 1770. British soldiers kill 5 colonists rioting vs Townshend Acts. A cause of the American Revolution.
Boston, Siege. 1775-6. US force British to evacuate.
Boston Tea Party. 1773. Colonials dump tea cargo to protest tax. Led to Intolerable Acts.
Faneuil Hall. 1742-. Boston “cradle of American liberty”.
Intolerable Acts. 1774. British response to Boston Tea Party, Gaspee burning. Closed Boston Harbor. Established military government. Midwest under Quebec rule...Continental Congress.
Liberty Affair. 1768. British sieze Hancock’s sloop ’Liberty’ smuggling wine to Boston.
Newspapers.1566 Venice (first). 1594 Mercurius Gallobelgious England. 1621 Batter England. 1662 First censorship. 1690 Boston. 1702 Daily Courant, first daily.
Tea Act. 1773. British give British East India Company effective monopoly in North America. Boston Tea Party.
Abbaye Prison. Principal site of 1792 September Massacres.
Abd al-Mumin. 1094-1163. Founded Almohad Empire in north Africa and Spain. Massacred Almoravids.
Amboina Massacre. 1623. 20 British and Japanese merchants executed by Dutch for plotting overthrow.
Amboise Conspiracy. 1560. Failed Huguenot plot to kidnap French king. Led to massacre of 1200 Huguenots.
Armenian Massacres. 1894-1918. 1.8M Armenians killed in Turkey.
Barrackpore Mutiny. 1824. Indian troops vs British commanders. Troops massacred.
Bartholemew’s Day, St. St. Bartholemew’s Day.
Boxer Rebellion. 1900. Massacre of ‘foreign devils’ by Chinese led to reprisals and Peking Protocol.
Calley, Wm. Convicted of My Lai Massacre.
Campbell, John. 1635-1716. Glencoe massacre organizer.
Catherine de Medici. 1519-89. Wife of Henry II, mother of 3 French kings, built Tuileries Palace. St. Bartholomew’s Day Massacre.
Charles IX. 1550-74. King of France 1560-. Bartholomew’s Day Massacre.
Cholula, Massacre. 1519. Cortes razes Mexican town; 3000 dead.
Coligny, Gaspard de. 1519-72. Huguenot leader 1562-. Influence on king caused Bartholomew’s Day Massacre.
Delacroix, Eugène. 1798-1863. French Romantic painter. Dante and Virgil. Massacre at Chios 1824.
Fetterman Massacre. 1866. Red Cloud-led Sioux kill 80 US Soldiers.
Glencoe Massacre. 1692. Campbells kill 38 MacDonalds for late oath of allegiance to King William.